10,858 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

The BUFFALO Survey : The Subhalo Mass Function for Abell 2744 with Strong+Weak Gravitational Lensing

Nency R. Patel, Mathilde Jauzac, Anna Niemiec +16

We present a combined strong and weak gravitational lensing mass model of the massive merging galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (z = 0.308). The mass reconstruction combines strong-lensing…

cs.CV2026

MAGEFormer: Learning Metric-Consistent Representations for Anisotropic CT Segmentation

Jiaying Li, Paolo Remagnino

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown strong performance in volumetric segmentation, but their effectiveness on clinical CT is limited by an isotropic Euclidean lattice assumption.…

astro-ph.GA2026

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1) Euclid spectroscopy of quasars. 2. Physical properties from spectral fitting

Euclid Collaboration, J. Calhau, G. Calderone +312

A substantial volume of spectroscopic data has become available with the Euclid Data Release (Q1), which represents a unique opportunity to study quasars (QSOs) in the Euclid Deep…

astro-ph.IM2026

RAMA: A new agile AO bench for the telescope FEELINGS

Matteo Pasinetti, Rodrigo Andres Munoz Gomez, Benjamin Andres Gonzalez Barraza +16

The ground-based observation of extended objects such as satellites suffer from severe atmospheric propagation constraints. Specifically, high tracking velocities and low-elevation…

astro-ph.GA2026

Euclid: Quick Data Release (Q1) -- Exploring the detailed visual morphology of galaxies in clusters

P. Mas-Buitrago, S. Kruk, D. O'Ryan +167

Galaxy clusters provide unique laboratories for studying environmental effects on galaxy evolution. The morphology--density (--) and morphology--cluster-centric radius (--…

quant-ph2026

Detector-Frame Quantum Limits for Heterodyne Timing in Relativistic Optical Links

Salman Sajad Wani, Aatif Kaisar Khan, Saif Al-Kuwari +1

Long-baseline optical links for space interferometry and satellite quantum networks rely on heterodyne phase tracking under Doppler motion and gravitational frequency shifts. These…

astro-ph.CO2026

Euclid. A two-point correlation approach to diagnosing star-related systematics in the Euclid spectroscopic survey

Euclid Collaboration, I. Risso, B. R. Granett +298

The Euclid spectroscopic survey will measure galaxy clustering with unprecedented precision, requiring stringent control of observational and instrumental systematics. Star-related…

astro-ph.CO2026

Euclid preparation. The shape of halo profiles in CDM and non-standard cosmologies

Euclid Collaboration, L. Pizzuti, G. Y. Ferron +304

We study the shape of three-dimensional and projected dark-matter halo profiles extracted from cosmological -body simulations in CDM and non-standard cosmologies, using the \…

astro-ph.IM2026

GRINTA: a new Probe of the Dynamic Universe

Lorenzo Natalucci, Philippe Laurent, Marica Branchesi +48

Recent observations of the transient sky at all wavelengths are increasingly revealing the importance of the multi-messenger and multi-wavelength approach. The GRINTA (Gamma-Ray IN…

astro-ph.GA2026

Slow stellar halo rotation as a signature of disc flips and GES-like mergers

Kirill Batrakov, Alis J. Deason, Francesca Fragkoudi +3

The stellar halo of the Milky Way (MW) exhibits a weak net prograde rotational signal ( km~s), yet its origin remains unexplained. To investigate this, we u…

astro-ph.IM2026

Pre-shipment optical characterization of the SCALES instrument

Isabel J. Kain, Reni Kupke, Daren Dillon +31

The Slicer Combined with an Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) instrument is a 1-5 micron imager and 2-5 micron integral field spectrograph, currently being comm…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GECKOS survey: Assembly history of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3957

Yuchen Ding, Marie Martig, Ling Zhu +24

We analyse the assembly history of the edge-on lenticular galaxy NGC 3957 using deep integral-field spectroscopic MUSE data from the GECKOS survey. By applying a dust-corrected Mul…

astro-ph.HE2026

Ultraluminous X-ray sources in the first eROSITA survey I. Candidate catalogs

P. Weber, T. P. Roberts, S. Hämmerich +28

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are luminous non-nuclear X-ray point sources embedded in galaxies. Their luminosities exceeding 10^39 erg/s potentially require sub-Eddington acc…

astro-ph.SR2026

Calculation of Field Line Slippage Rates in Coronal Simulations

Valentin Aslanyan, David MacTaggart, Roger B. Scott +6

We present the Universal Slippage calculator (\texttt{USlip}), an extension of the Universal Fieldline Tracer (\texttt{UFiT}), that computes magnetic field line slippage rates from…

astro-ph.IM2026

Demonstration of simultaneous PIAA- coronagraphy and wavefront sensing using a single metasurface-based focal-plane optic

Dhwanil Patel, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Skyler Palatnick +23

Controlling residual wavefront aberrations downstream of an extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system is a major challenge in high-contrast imaging. These aberrations produce quasi-sta…

cs.CV2026

NeuroPath: Brain-Inspired Dual-Pathway Graph Convolutional Networks for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

Kanglei Zhou, Ruizhi Cai, Hubert P. H. Shum +2

Skeleton-based action recognition aims to recognize human actions from sequences of human joint coordinates. Most existing Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks (STGCNs) ha…

astro-ph.GA2026

High-spectral-resolution Observations of the [S II] Emission-line Doublet in the Filamentary Nebula Surrounding NGC 1275

Benjamin Vigneron, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Carter Lee Rhea +10

We analyze new high-spectral resolution SITELLE observations (R = = 7000) of the filamentary nebula surrounding NGC 1275, central galaxy of the Perseus cluster. We present h…

astro-ph.IM2026

Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…

quant-ph2026

Constructive realization of self-referential prediction limits in quantum control: Resource bounds and Gödel-safe architectures

Salman Sajad Wani, Álvaro Perales-Eceiza, Saif Al-Kuwari +1

Programmable quantum control systems increasingly rely on predictive modules for certification, real-time feedback, and autonomous decision-making. This development raises a fundam…

astro-ph.GA2026

XRISM Resolves the Circum-nuclear Environment of NGC 4945

Peter G. Boorman, Poshak Gandhi, Yoshihiro Ueda +31

Compton-thick Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) represent one of the most elusive phases of massive black hole growth, yet are expected to contribute substantially to the Cosmic X-ray B…

astro-ph.IM2026

Multi-sensor fusion for fine-guidance and milliarcsecond-level attitude estimation of balloon-borne telescope

Philippe Voyer, Maya Amit, Steven J. Benton +44

Balloon-borne telescopes rely on fine-guidance systems to achieve milliarcsecond image stability despite residual disturbances from the balloon environment. In these systems, the F…

astro-ph.GA2026

Chemical enrichment of the Perseus cluster core seen by XRISM/Resolve

XRISM Collaboration, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki +143

The intracluster medium (ICM) is rich in chemical elements, produced by core-collapse (SNcc) and Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) over the last 12 Gyr. Whereas cluster outskirts are…

astro-ph.GA2026

Beyond the Fundamental Metallicity Relation: galaxy sizes encode the link between inflow and metallicity

N. F. Boardman, V. Wild, D. Scholte +3

Gas-phase chemical abundances are key observable consequences of galaxy evolution, being intrinsically tied to galaxy formation histories. Gas metallicity rises with increasing ste…

hep-th2026

A T-Fold Black Hole in Doubled Type IIB

Mir Faizal, Arshid Shabir

We construct an asymptotically flat T-fold representative of a four-dimensional dyonic black-hole charge orbit in doubled type-IIB theory. Starting from the F1-P-NS5-KKM toroidal s…